CCBC awarded $30K grant, 100 laptops from Comcast

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The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) is the recipient of a $30,000 grant and 100 new laptops from Comcast.

The grant will help students who lack resources through the college’s Student Emergency Aid Fund while the laptops will go to students enrolled in CCBC certificate and adult literacy education programs.

Comcast will be on hand to present CCBC with the donation and help distribute laptops Thursday at 2:30 p.m. outside the Administration Building at CCBC Essex, at 7201 Rossville Blvd.

Beyond the financial grant and laptop donation, Comcast is focused on increasing digital equity with its Internet Essentials program, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption effort for low-income households. Over the past 10 years, Internet Essentials has connected a cumulative total of 192,000 Baltimoreans.

Comcast is also supporting the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB), a temporary benefit program from the federal government designed to help qualified low-income households with a credit of up to $50 per month (up to $75/month for customers in tribal lands) until the program’s funding runs out. This gives new and existing customers the opportunity to apply the credit to all tiers of Xfinity Internet service, including the full monthly cost of Internet Essentials.

Throughout the pandemic, CCBC has made every effort to lessen the burden on students by keeping its doors open for those who found remote learning challenging, providing tuition-free opportunities for students and making online on-campus labs available for those who lacked Internet service. The donation from Comcast increases CCBC’s ability to connect students with resources that can help them be more successful in their academic pursuits.